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CURRENT
PODCAST

Podcast
#4 - Interview with Yolanda Wisher
(34:32)September
1st 2008

As
a teacher at Germantown Friends
School and founder of the Germantown
Poetry Festival, Yolanda Wisher
talks about her passion for melding
poetry and community activism, using
language to bridge the divide between
groups of young people of different
races, classes, and cultures. The
podcast includes excerpts of work
by four of her students: Bouyeh
Zulu, Alisha Dantzler, Moira Quigley,
and Keisha Duncan.

In
her capacity as celebrity judge
for the 2008 Montgomery County Poet
Laureate competition, Marie Howe
came to Arcadia University in April
to introduce the winner, Elizabeth
Rivers, and to give a full-length
poetry reading. Early the next morning,
before rushing off to her next engagement,
she met with Dave Simpson to talk
about and read from her new book,
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. This
podcast is the first half of that
interview.

Joanne
Leva, executive director of the
Montgomery County Poet Laureate
program, presented Elizabeth Rivers
as the 2008 Poet Laureate, at Arcadia
University, on Friday, April 11.
In this podcast, Joanne briefly
introduces Liz, who then gives a
five-minute inaugural speech outlining
her goals and reads two of her poems.